Heroes (Sonic the Hedgehog! The Avengers AU)

Chapter 12 - The Final Battle (Part 1)

On command, thousands of badniks flew from the portal and dropped from the sky.

The group of heroes looked up, some even sighing in a bit of annoyance.

"Guys-" Amy began to warn, interrupted by Tails.

"Call it, life-form."

"Alright, listen up," Shadow began, turning to face the group.  "Until we can close that portal up there, we're gonna use containment. Espio, I want you on that roof, eyes on everything. Call out patterns and strays. Prower, Blaze, you got the perimeter. Anything gets more than three blocks out; you turn it back or your turn it to ash," he commanded, pointing to each one.

The trio nodded, Espio leaping into action as he climbed up the buildings. Blaze and Tails took to the air, flying off in trails of yellow.

Shadow turned his attention back to the rest. "Knuckles, you've gotta try and bottleneck that portal. Slow them down. You've got the power, punch the damn thing to pieces."

Knuckles smirked. "I like the sound of that," he chuckled, running off.

"You and me," he said, attention to Rouge. "We stay here on the ground, keep the fighting here. Same with you, Amy, we need that hammer power. And Sonic? Smash."

The werehog smirked, leaping high, soaring in the air before he landed on the nearest building. The beast rampaged through the badniks that terrorized the buildings, ripping their metal skeletons to pieces. His arms reached to the next building, crushing any badnik within a foot of its reach. From building to building, bots fell from the werehogs raw power.

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Knuckles landed onto the tower, his spikes digging into the building as he scaled his way up. Once at the top he saw the line of badniks falling from the sky, and in a grand leap, he landed on one of the flying ones, crushing it before jumping to others, hoping to lower the number of robots that make it to land. Though the same couldn't be said about the number of robotic debris he left in his wake.

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Back in the bridge of the skip, Vexctor watched all this destruction of the city on a screen before an agent approached him.

"Sir. The council is on-"

Vectors eye twitched, and he sighed as he turned the screen off, walking away.

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Atop another rooftop, Espio was throwing kunai left and right, each one hitting a badnik with precision. He even threw one behind him, not bothering to look as the sound of metal stabbing metal let him know he didn't miss.

"Blaze, you got a lot of strings sticking to your tail," the chameleon informed.

The cat was soaring through the streets, propelled by her flames as she covered one side of the city while Tails took care of the other. She glanced behind her to see the trail of badniks, sending fire blasts at a few. "Just try and keep them off the streets."

"Well, they can't bank worth a damn. Find a tight corner."

She smirked. "I will roger that." She led the robots around tight corners, watching as they failed to complete a successful turn. She continued leading them through parking garages, tunnels, and past more buildings. By the time she was done, there were none left behind her. "Nice call. What else you got?"

"Well, Knuckles taking on a squadron down on 6th," Espio suggested.

"And he didn't invite me?"

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